This is a special post. It’s actually a companion piece to my most recent collaboration. For that reason, I’m giving everyone access to the initial collaboration post (sit back and enjoy long and utterly fascinating read!). Here’s the short version: my friend Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm has a history not unlike my own. She was an active […]
This is a very special collaboration, for a lot of reasons. It’s a long read, but it’s really, really worth it. Find a comfy chair and dig in! WATCH || LISTEN [SIDENOTE: My new Soft Punch single, “Astering,” is coming out on Bad Friend Records on November 5th; mark yr dang calendars!] I rarely get […]
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Hi! If you’re reading this, I’m glad you’re alive! Things have been pretty wild lately. Covid is heating back up and nearly took out a dear friend of mine (still in his early twenties, no less). Get that jab! The White House did a great job getting this far, but they’ve recently begun venting frustration […]
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Hello Friend– Hoo boy, the past few weeks have really been something! But before getting into hospital stays and antipsychotics and whatnot, I think it’s important to talk about something really major that happened in late April: I got a haircut! It had been ages. It was overgrown way before the pandemic. In desperation, I […]
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Hi Friend! Normally, I would have sent out some kind of update email by now. I would be telling you about how I got a nice haircut at home, how I spent a few days in a hospital in Philly getting inpatient headache treatments, and how the music I’ve been working on lately has been […]
While he was still in college, my dad bought a DIY banjo building kit. He put it together and learned to play a few songs, but he wasn’t too serious about it. Growing up, I remember him pulling it out now and then. It was a nice little novelty. Hello, 1984! My uncle Steve is […]